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Stanley Spencer, the son of William Spencer, a teacher of music, was born in Cookham, Berkshire, in 1891. When Spencer was seventeen he entered the Slade School of Fine Art at University College, London. Other students at the Slade at that time included C. R. W. Nevinson and Mark Gertler. At the Slade he won the Composition Prize with The Nativity (1912).
On the outbreak of the First World War, Spencer joined the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). For a while he worked at Beaufort Hospi (showing 500 of 3746 characters). |
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